I've been thinking lately about a lot of my old friends, the ones that I don't see anymore. I guess this is bound to happen when you get older but I miss them ( Read more... )

I don't post much. This is because my days are usually overwhelming and when I even think about posting something I know it will take hours just to figure out where to begin. But recently I've had internet issues that prevented me from doing anything online the past few days. (Thank YOU, Windows 10 update!!!) While I could have used the extra ( Read more... )

These seem to be making the rounds ( Read more... )

This is my second attempt to post photos:

These are random. I just wanted to see if my attempt would work. Pics are below the cut:

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I'm very happy to announce that I finished the Back To Middle Earth Month challenge this year! In fact, I think this is the first time I've ever finished a B2MEM challenge! Yay me! :D ( Read more... )

I was looking at some ideas from Houzz and thought I'd try their 'embed' feature. I thought it might reproduce the whole article here but it just gives a link to it on their own website.

Anyway the ideas are really pretty if anyone wants to have a look.

12 Stunning Spring Container Gardens

Oh yes, of course, at the beginning of the hottest period of the summer, we decided to close our swimming pool and have it filled in and the backyard resodded. Not really, we had decided to do it a couple of months ago but it took that long until the guys we hired could start work on our place. Ryan, the man in charge, told us he had done 32 pool ( Read more... )

It's almost time for me to watch my Woodstock DVD again but I can't wait until August 15th so what better time than now? There's only so much time I can waste watching the GOP convention no matter how fascinating it is to see a political machine self destruct ( Read more... )

We've started hiking again despite the overly hot weather. But I need to get rid of the fat roll around my middle ASAP and for me this is the best way to do it. These are pics from our local Heydenshore park in Whitby and the trail that runs east into Oshawa. We only did 2 miles for starters and I managed to twist my knee but not too badly ( Read more... )

I've been gone from here for so long it's ridiculous but let's forget all that for now.

I'M FREE!!!! My retirement from work took place a week ago and true to my word I slept for the first week. Now I'm ready to do all the things I enjoy most, including immersing myself once more into LJ and my fandoms ( Read more... )